Twitter appears to throttle New York Times | Semafor
www.semafor.com
X, Elon Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users’ access to The New York Times.

X appears to throttle New York Times::X, Elon Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users’ access to The New York Times.

  • SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    1 year ago

    Again? How many times will Musk try to sneak this through? Eventually he will stop pretending and just block it.

    NYT should just leave the service like other media sites.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    941·
    1 year ago

    That is just so petty. People can still go to the NY Times easily. Just not via Twitter. What’s the point? Pettiness. That’s the point.

    • CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3710·
      1 year ago

      That’s you and me. That doesn’t apply to most people. I have rss feeds to follow what interests me. But Twitter for a lot of people is just that, a glorified rss reader. They follow some people, some news outlets and that’s it. The number of people who visit NYT organically is, in my assumption, less than 100k. I genuinely believe that services like Google News, Meta & Twitter is where NYT gets most of their clicks from.

      • geogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        152·
        1 year ago

        I seriously doubt your numbers. Granted, I’m older, but I subscribe to NYT and go there almost daily to read the headlines, a few stories, and a couple games. I hit a few others nearly daily as well for different takes. About 20 years ago, I used Google News, but I switched a long time ago to direct paper access because I didn’t want to be fed only what I want to hear. I want a more holistic news diet.

        • czardestructo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Ditto. I was sick of sensationalism and click bait trash. Their research articles are also really well done and intelligent. I subscribe so I at least have one decent source without the mental burden of constantly having to sort fact from fiction.

    • xkforce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      The richest or well second richest man on the planet has the maturity of a kindergardner with conduct disorder. This is what the market decided needed to be rewarded more than almost any other person on the planet.

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    1 year ago

    I love watching villains fighting villains.

    I just get to root for the carnage. The Neoliberal Paper of Record vs. King Libertarian, fight!

    • demlet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      Genuinely curious, this isn’t snark, what do you suggest in the US that’s better than the NY Times? I mean, NPR, of course, but I can’t really detect much of a difference between the two.